The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ Nay! I swear by this city 1 and you are dwelling in this city -- 2 And the parent and the offspring, 3 Verily We have created man into toil and struggle. 4 Does he think that no one can overpower him? 5 And he saith: I have destroyed vast wealth: 6 Thinketh he that none beholdeth him? 7 Have We not appointed to him two eyes, 8 And a tongue and a pair of lips? 9 and shown him the two highways [of good and evil]? 10 But he has not broken through the difficult pass. 11 What will explain to you what the ascent is? 12 It is the freeing of a slave; 13 or giving food upon a day of hunger 14 To the orphan with claims of relationship, 15 or a needy man in misery; 16 Then he became of those who believed and enjoined on each other steadfastness and enjoined on each other compassion. 17 These are the fellows of the righthand. 18 But those who disbelieved in Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), they are those on the Left Hand (the dwellers of Hell). 19 On them will be Fire vaulted over (all round). 20